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1984Text Overview

We will read George Orwell’s 1984 and a series of related texts. The location of these texts is indicated in the Unit Text List.

Core

  • Tradebook
    • 1984, George Orwell, Signet Classics, 1949
  • Digital Access
    • “Many Americans Say Made-Up News Is a Critical Problem That Needs to Be Fixed,” Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, Mason Walker, and Sophia Fedeli, Pew Research Center, 2019
    • “Privacy and Information Sharing,” Lee Rainie and Maeve Duggan, Pew Research Center, 2016
    • “Research Tips for Fiction Writers: Where to Find Information and How to Use It Effectively,” Sherryl Clark, The Startup, 2019
  • Unit Reader
    • “Critical Thinking for College, Career, and Citizenship,” Diane F. Halpern, Brookings Institute, 2016
    • “George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984,” Colin Marshall, Open Culture, LLC, 2014
    • “Why I Write,” George Orwell, The Orwell Foundation, 1946

Optional

  • Unit Reader
    • “Defining Fake News: A Typology of Scholarly Definitions,” Edson C. Tadnoc, Jr., Zheng Wei Lim, and Richard Ling, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2018
    • “The Age-Old Problem of ‘Fake News’,” Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian Institution, 2018
    • “Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, and Fascism,” Robert Longley, ThoughtCo, 2020
  • Digital Access
    • “Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial,” Ridley Scott, Apple, 1984
    • “Are We In Control of Our Own Decisions?,” Dan Ariely, TED Talk, 2008
    • “How Language Shapes the Way We Think,” Lera Boroditsky, TED Talk
    • “The Science Behind Why People Follow the Crowd,” Rob Henderson, Psychology Today, 2017
    • “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison, Houghton Mifflin, 1995
    • “What Makes a Word Real?,” Anne Curzan, TED Talk
    • “What Orwellian Really Means,” Noah Tavlin, TED-Ed
    • “What is Dystopian Fiction?,” Masterclass, Masterclass, 2019

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